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Model Description

LLaVA (Large Language and Vision Assistant) is a multimodal model that integrates a vision encoder with a language model via a lightweight projector module, enabling end-to-end visual and language understanding. It accepts both image and text inputs and generates text-based outputs, making it suitable for instruction-following, question answering, and general-purpose visual dialogue tasks. The architecture consists of three components:
  • A vision encoder initialized from pretrained OpenAI CLIP-ViT-L/14-336px.
  • A language model initialized from Vicuna weights.
  • A projector module, implemented as a multi-layer perceptron (MLP), which maps image embeddings into the language model’s token embedding space.
Training occurs in two distinct phases:
  1. Feature Alignment Pretraining: Only the projector module is trained in this phase. Its weights are updated to align the image features from the vision encoder with the word embeddings of the language model.
  2. Instruction Finetuning:The model is trained on instruction-following data to enable chatbot capabilities. During this phase, the language model and projector are typically finetuned, while the vision encoder remains frozen.

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Code Structure

The code for this model is located in the llava directory within the ModelZoo. Here’s how it’s organized:
  • configs/: Contains YAML configuration files used for training, evaluation, and instruction fine-tuning.
  • model.py: Defines the top-level LLaVA model class, encapsulating the vision encoder, projector, and language model modules, and orchestrating forward passes for training and inference.
  • modeling_llava.py: Implements core building blocks including the projector MLP, model loading utilities, and integration logic to bridge image features into the LLM token embedding space.

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Available Configurations

ConfigurationDescription
params_llava_v1p5_pretrain_13b_phase1_MSL2K.yamlPhase 1: Feature alignment pretraining for 13B model (MSL=2048).
params_llava_v1p5_pretrain_13b_phase2_MSL2K.yamlPhase 2: Instruction fine-tuning for 13B model (MSL=2048).
params_llava_v1p5_pretrain_7b_phase1_MSL2K.yamlPhase 1: Feature alignment pretraining for 7B model (MSL=2048).
params_llava_v1p5_pretrain_7b_phase2_MSL2K.yamlPhase 2: Instruction fine-tuning for 7B model (MSL=2048).

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Dataset Download and Preprocessing

Please follow the instructions here for datasets to be downloaded from HuggingFace Datasets. Since all datasets on the HuggingFace Hub are Git repositories, the datasets can be downloaded locally by running git clone: 
git lfs install
git clone git@hf.co:datasets/<dataset ID>
We provide script preprocess_dataset.py to further pre-process some of the Phase-1 and Phase-2 datasets into the correct LLaVA jsonl formats. Please see the help message to see which datasets are covered and find more details in the below sections regarding each individual datasets. Additionally, we provide an additional utility option convert_json2jsonl to convert a folder of json files to jsonl files - the latter will be the input format that the later HDF5 processing scripts will act on. 
python preprocess_dataset.py -h
usage: Pre-process LLaVa datasets [-h] {ai2d,arxivcap,arxivqa,chartqa,sp_docvqa,infographics_docvqa,dvqa,synthdog_en,convert_json2jsonl} ...

positional arguments:
  {ai2d,arxivcap,arxivqa,chartqa,sp_docvqa,infographics_docvqa,dvqa,synthdog_en,convert_json2jsonl}
    ai2d                Pre-process AI2D dataset
    arxivcap            Pre-process ArxivCAP dataset
    arxivqa             Pre-process ArxivQA dataset
    chartqa             Pre-process ChartQA dataset
    sp_docvqa           Pre-process SP-DocVQA dataset
    infographics_docvqa
                        Pre-process Infographics-DocVQA dataset
    dvqa                Pre-process DVQA dataset
    synthdog_en         Pre-process Synthdog_EN dataset
    convert_json2jsonl  Pre-process json files to jsonl files

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
Note: We currently expect all the images under a single parent folder and the relative path of images from different datasets are written under image_key in the H5 files generated. For example: 
 train_input.img_data_dir
 ├── coco
 ├── gqa
 ├── ocr_vqa
 ├── textvqa
 └── vg

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Phase-1: Pre-training for Feature alignment datasets:

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LLaVA Visual Instruct Pretrain LCS-558K Dataset

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ShareGPT4V-PT Dataset

  • Download the dataset share-captioner_coco_lcs_sam_1246k_1107.json from HuggingFace here.
  • This dataset consists of 100K high-quality captions collected from advanced GPT4-Vision and has been expanded to 1.2 million with a caption model trained on this subset.
  • Images for this dataset can be downloaded by following the instructions here
  • No further preprocessing is required

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Synthdog-EN Dataset

  • Download the dataset from HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/datasets/naver-clova-ix/synthdog-en
  • The images for this dataset are present in the parquet files
  • Steps for preprocessing dataset:
    • Place the downloaded files at /<path>/synthdog-en
    • Use preprocess_dataset.py to process the data into LLaVa jsonl format. Please see the required input arguments.
    python preprocess_dataset.py synthdog_en -h
usage: Pre-process LLaVa datasets synthdog_en [-h] --input_dir INPUT_DIR --output_jsonl_dir OUTPUT_JSONL_DIR --output_parquet_dir OUTPUT_PARQUET_DIR --parquet_range PARQUET_RANGE [PARQUET_RANGE ...] --output_image_dir OUTPUT_IMAGE_DIR --image_prefix IMAGE_PREFIX

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --input_dir INPUT_DIR
                        Input directory of Synthdog-EN dataset parquet files.
  --output_jsonl_dir OUTPUT_JSONL_DIR
                        Output directory of Synthdog-EN processed json files with LLaVa jsonl format.
  --output_parquet_dir OUTPUT_PARQUET_DIR
                        Output directory of Synthdog-EN processed parquet files.
  --parquet_range PARQUET_RANGE [PARQUET_RANGE ...]
                        Range of Synthdog-EN parquet files to be selected.
  --output_image_dir OUTPUT_IMAGE_DIR
                        Directory of Synthdog-EN image files.
  --image_prefix IMAGE_PREFIX
                        Relative path prefix for Synthdog-EN image files.
    • Example command:
    python preprocess_dataset.py synthdog_en \
--input_dir=/<path>/synthdog-en/data \
--output_jsonl_dir=/<path>/synthdog-en/llava_processed_jsons \
--output_parquet_dir=/<path>/synthdog-en/llava_processed_parquet \
--parquet_range 3 11 \
--output_image_dir=/<path>/synthdog-en/images \
--image_prefix=synthdog-en/images

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Phase-2: Instruction Finetuning datasets

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LLaVA Visual Instruct 150K Dataset

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ShareGPT4V-SFT Dataset:

  • Download the dataset sharegpt4v_mix665k_cap23k_coco-ap9k_lcs3k_sam9k_div2k.json from HuggingFace here.
  • This dataset is built by replacing 23K image-text pairs related to the image captioning task in LLaVA-mix-665K with a equivalent subset in collected GPT4V-generated high-quality image-text pairs.
  • Images for this dataset can be downloaded by following the instructions here
  • No further preprocessing is required

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ChartQA Dataset

  • Download the dataset from HuggingFaceHub Datasets from the link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ahmed-masry/ChartQA
  • Steps for preprocessing dataset:
    • Place the downloaded files at /<path>/ChartQA_Dataset
    • Use preprocess_dataset.py to process the data into LLaVa jsonl format. Please see the required input arguments:
    python preprocess_dataset.py chartqa -h
usage: Pre-process LLaVa datasets chartqa [-h] --dataset_folder DATASET_FOLDER

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --dataset_folder DATASET_FOLDER
                        Path to the ChartQA dataset folder with the data split folders.
    • Example command:
    python preprocess_dataset.py chartqa --dataset_folder /<path>/ChartQA_Dataset

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DVQA Dataset

  • The dataset can be downloaded by following instructions mentioned in https://github.com/kushalkafle/DVQA_dataset?tab=readme-ov-file#download-links
  • Steps for preprocessing dataset:
    • Place the downloaded files at /<path>/DVQA
    • Use preprocess_dataset.py to process the data into LLaVa jsonl format. Please see the required input arguments:
    python preprocess_dataset.py dvqa -h
usage: Pre-process LLaVa datasets dvqa [-h] --dataset_folder DATASET_FOLDER

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --dataset_folder DATASET_FOLDER
                        Path to the DVQA dataset folder with the data files.
    • Example command:
    python preprocess_dataset.py dvqa --dataset_folder /<path>/DVQA/qa

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AI2 Diagram Dataset

  • Download the dataset and images using 
    wget https://ai2-public-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/diagrams/ai2d-all.zip
  • Steps for preprocessing dataset:
    • Unzip the downloaded zip file to /<path>/ai2d
    • Use preprocess_dataset.py to process the data into LLaVa jsonl format. Please see the required input arguments:
    python preprocess_dataset.py ai2d -h
usage: Pre-process LLaVa datasets ai2d [-h] --question_dir QUESTION_DIR --output_jsonl_dir OUTPUT_JSONL_DIR

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --question_dir QUESTION_DIR
                        Path to the AI2D question directory, which contains json files describing the question and answer corresponding to an image.
  --output_jsonl_dir OUTPUT_JSONL_DIR
                        Folder to write the AI2D output jsonl files, which is in LLaVa format describing the image and associated question and answer.
    • Example command:
    python preprocess_dataset.py ai2d --question_dir /<path>/ai2d/questions --output_jsonl_dir /<path>/ai2d/ai2d_llava_jsonl

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ArxivQA Dataset

  • The dataset can be downloaded from https://huggingface.co/datasets/MMInstruction/ArxivQA
  • Steps for preprocessing dataset:
    • Place the downloaded files at /<path>/ArxivQA
    • Use preprocess_dataset.py to process the data into LLaVa jsonl format. Please see the required input arguments:
    python preprocess_dataset.py arxivqa -h
usage: Pre-process LLaVa datasets arxivqa [-h] --input_file INPUT_FILE --output_jsonl_dir OUTPUT_JSONL_DIR

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --input_file INPUT_FILE
                        Path to the ArxivQA question file, which contains the question and answer corresponding to an image.
  --output_jsonl_dir OUTPUT_JSONL_DIR
                        Folder to write the ArxivQA output jsonl files, which is in LLaVa format describing the image and associated question and answer.
    • Example command:
    python preprocess_dataset.py arxivqa --input_file /<path>/ArxivQA/arxivqa.jsonl --output_jsonl_dir /<path>/ArxivQA/arxivqa_llava_jsonl

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ArxivCap Dataset

  • The dataset can be downloaded from https://huggingface.co/datasets/MMInstruction/ArxivCap.
  • We process and use only figures with captions. Any subfigures are not included.
  • Steps for preprocessing dataset:
    • Place the downloaded files at /<path>/ArxivCAP
    • Use preprocess_dataset.py to process the data into LLaVa jsonl format. Please see the required input arguments:
    python preprocess_dataset.py arxivqa -h
usage: Pre-process LLaVa datasets arxivqa [-h] --input_file INPUT_FILE --output_jsonl_dir OUTPUT_JSONL_DIR

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --input_file INPUT_FILE
                        Path to the ArxivQA question file, which contains the question and answer corresponding to an image.
  --output_jsonl_dir OUTPUT_JSONL_DIR
                        Folder to write the ArxivQA output jsonl files, which is in LLaVa format describing the image and associated question and answer.
    • Example command:
    python preprocess_dataset.py arxivcap \
--input_dir=/<path>/ArxivCap/data \
--output_jsonl_dir=/<path>/ArxivCap/llava_processed_jsons \
--output_parquet_dir=/<path>/ArxivCap/llava_processed_parquet \
--parquet_range 3 11 \
--output_image_dir=/<path>/ArxivCap/images \
--image_prefix=ArxivCap/images

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DocVQA Dataset

  • Download the dataset following instructions here
  • Registration is required to download the dataset under Single Document Visual Question Answering
  • Steps for preprocessing dataset:
    • Place the downloaded files at /<path>/DocVQA
    • Use preprocess_dataset.py to process each subset into LLaVa jsonl format. Please see the required input arguments:
    python preprocess_dataset.py sp_docvqa -h
usage: Pre-process LLaVa datasets sp_docvqa [-h] --dataset_folder DATASET_FOLDER

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --dataset_folder DATASET_FOLDER
                        Path to the SP-DocVQA dataset folder with the data files.


python preprocess_dataset.py infographics_docvqa -h
usage: Pre-process LLaVa datasets infographics_docvqa [-h] --dataset_folder DATASET_FOLDER

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --dataset_folder DATASET_FOLDER
                        Path to the Inforgraphics-DocVQA dataset folder with the data files.
    • Example commands:
    python preprocess_dataset.py sp_docvqa --dataset_folder /<path>/DocVQA/SP-DocVQA/qa

python preprocess_dataset.py infographics_docvqa --dataset_folder /<path>/DocVQA/Infographicsvqa/qa

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Sequence of the steps to perform

The high-level steps for training a model are relatively simple, involving data-processing and then model training and evaluation
  • Step 1: Dataset download and preprocessing
  • Step 2: Generate H5 files for training
    • Generate files for Phase-1 (Pre-training for Feature alignment) stage
    • Generate files for Phase-2 (Instruction Finetuning) stage
  • Step 3: Download pretrained checkpoints for Phase 1
  • Step 4: Convert checkpoints to CS Model Zoo format using checkpoint converter
  • Step 5: Training the model on CS system or GPU using run.py
    • To compile/validate, run train and eval on Cerebras System
    • To run train and eval on GPU/CPU
      • Phase-1 training
      • Phase-2 training
  • Step 6: Convert checkpoint to source code repository format to run eval
  • Step 7: Set up source code repository for benchmark evaluation and run evaluation.
The steps are elaborated below:

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Step 1: Dataset download and preparation

Please follow instructions in Dataset download and preprocessing to setup datasets for the appropriate phase for H5 file generation

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Step 2: Generate H5 files for training

The next step is to generate H5 files that are used by the model during training using LlavaHDF5MapDataProcessor. We use create_hdf5_dataset.py to create preprocessed dataset files. Further details on usage and instructions can be found here.

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Generate files for Phase-1 (Pre-training for Feature alignment) stage

Refer to LlavaPhaseOnePreprocessor and config file for Phase-1 H5 file generation: llava_phase_1_preproc.yaml. Please update the following fields in llava_phase_1_preproc.yaml appropriately:
  1. setup.input_dir: Input data directory containing jsonl files.
  2. setup.output_dir: Output directory to save generated H5 files
  3. setup.processes: Adjust based on cores available for parallel processing
  4. processor.tokenizer_type: Tokenizer to use
  5. processor.max_sequence_length: Maximum sequence length that the model is trained on. This includes the token positions to be used for image data features as well. This means that the number of tokens available for text tokens is processor.max_sequence_length - dataset.num_patches - 1(BOS token)
  6. dataset.num_patches: Number of patches obtained after the image is patchified. This is computed based on the following:
  7. dataset.image_dir: Parent directory where all the images are present. Used along with the relative path under the image_key field in jsonl to check that images exist, and throw out examples with no image.
Command to generate H5 files for Phase 1 and shuffle 
cd modelzoo/data_preparation/nlp/hdf5_preprocessing

python create_hdf5_dataset.py LlavaPhaseOne --params configs/llava_phase_1_preproc.yaml
Shuffle samples across H5 files 
cd modelzoo/data_preparation/hdf5_shuffling

bash launch_h5_shuffle.sh <path/to/input_dir> <path/to/output_dir> <num_chunks> <num_workers> --multi_modal
More information about shuffling script can be found here

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Generate files for Phase-2 (Instruction Finetuning) stage

Refer to LlavaPhaseTwoPreprocessor and config file for Phase-2 H5 file generation: llava_phase_2_preproc.yaml. The fields to be updated include
  • All fields mentioned for Phase-1 above
  • Please note the field dataset.system_prompt_style: vicuna_v1. This is used to transform the instruction finetuning dataset into the vicuna_v1 format with appropriate system message and USER and ASSISTANT values. Note that we currently support vicuna_v1 only.
  • Support for other formats such as llama, zephyr is planned for future releases.
Command to generate H5 files for Phase 2 
cd modelzoo/data_preparation/nlp/hdf5_preprocessing

python create_hdf5_dataset.py LlavaPhaseTwo --params configs/llava_phase_2_preproc.yaml
Shuffle samples across H5 files 
cd modelzoo/data_preparation/hdf5_shuffling

bash launch_h5_shuffle.sh <path/to/input_dir> <path/to/output_dir> <num_chunks> <num_workers> --multi_modal
More information about shuffling script can be found here

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Step 3: Download pretrained checkpoints for Phase-1

Checkpoint converter script for converting CLIP-ViT and Vicuna checkpoints to CS format require the following directory structure: 
/path/to/pretrained/checkpoints
├── image_model
│   ├── config.json
│   ├── preprocessor_config.json
│   └── pytorch_model.bin
└── text_model
    ├── config.json
    ├── config_lmsys.json
    ├── pytorch_model-00001-of-00002.bin
    ├── pytorch_model-00002-of-00002.bin
    ├── pytorch_model.bin.index.json
    ├── tokenizer_config.json
    ├── special_tokens_map.json
    └── tokenizer.model
a. openai/clip-vit-large-patch14-336 checkpoints, config.json and preprocessor_config.json should be downloaded to a subdirectory image_model. 
cd /path/to/pretrained/checkpoints
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-large-patch14-336 image_model
b. lmsys/vicuna-7b-v1.5 checkpoints and tokenizer files should be downloaded to a subdirectory text_model 
cd /path/to/pretrained/checkpoints
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-7b-v1.5 text_model
c. Rename config.json to config_lmsys.json 
mv /path/to/pretrained/checkpoints/text_model/config.json /path/to/pretrained/checkpoints/text_model/config_lmsys.json
d. Download LLaVA-7B config.json from HuggingFace 
cd /path/to/pretrained/checkpoints/text_model
wget https://huggingface.co/liuhaotian/llava-v1.5-7b/raw/main/config.json
We do steps (c) and (d) above since we need additional information about LLaVA model such as mm_projector_type etc to build appropriate CS config yaml and checkpoint Note: In case of LLaVA-13B

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Step 4: Convert checkpoints to CS Model Zoo format using checkpoint converter

More information about checkpoint converters can be obtained by python modelzoo/tools/convert_checkpoint.py list

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Step 5: Training the model on CS system or GPU using run.py

IMPORTANT: See the following notes before proceeding further. Parameter settings in YAML config file: The config YAML files are located in the configs directory. Before starting a training run, make sure that the YAML configs used have the following set correctly:
  • The train_input.data_dir parameter points to the correct dataset
  • The train_input.img_data_dir parameter points to the correct parent directory containing all images needed by the dataset.
  • The train_input.image_size parameter corresponds to the image-size of the dataset.
  • Also change sizes in train_input.transforms appropriately if train_input.image_size is updated.
  • The model.image_model.image_size points to the image size passed to ViTModel
  • The model.image_model.patch_size parameter to use different patch sizes
  • model.freeze contains the regex patterns to freeze appropriate layers in the model
  • model.image_feature_select_layer_idx parameter to specify the image_model encoder layer from which features are extracted for the input image.
  • model.image_start_idx parameter: This parameter should be set based on the data_params.json file that is saved when H5 files are generated using create_hdf5_dataset.py. In general,
    • Phase-1: model.image_start_idx: 1
    • Phase-2 with dataset.system_prompt_style: vicuna_v1: model.image_start_idx: 35
YAML config files: Details on the configs for this model can be found in the configs included for this model In the following example run commands, we use /path/to/yaml, /path/to/model_dir, and train as placeholders for user supplied inputs.
  • /path/to/yaml is a path to the YAML config file with model parameters such one of the configurations described in the configs included for this model.
  • /path/to/model_dir is a path to the directory where we would like to store the logs and other artifacts of the run.
  • --mode specifies the desired mode to run the model in. Change to --mode eval to run in eval mode.

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To run train and eval on GPU/CPU

If running on a CPU or GPU, activate the environment from Python GPU Environment setup, and simply run: 
python run.py {CPU,GPU} \
--mode train \
--params /path/to/yaml \
--model_dir /path/to/model_dir
In case of LLaVA, training is a two stage process as below:
  • Phase-1 (Pre-training for Feature alignment) stage
    • To launch this phase, we initialize the model using converted checkpoint from Step-4
    • Command: 
      python run.py {CPU,GPU} \
--mode train \
--params /path/to/phase-1-llava-yaml \
--model_dir /path/to/model_dir_phase_1 \
--checkpoint_path /path/to/Step4/converted_checkpoint_mdl_file
  • Phase-2 (Instruction Finetuning) stage
    • When instruction finetuning, the model is initialized from the checkpoint from Phase-1.
    • Command: 
      python run.py {CPU,GPU} \
--mode train \
--params /path/to/phase-2-llava-yaml \
--model_dir /path/to/model_dir \
--checkpoint_path /path/to/model_dir_phase_1/checkpoint_<xxxx>.mdl
    • Note: The yaml from Phase-2 should only load model states from Phase-1 checkpoint by setting the yaml flag runconfig.load_checkpoint_states: "model"

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Step 6: Convert checkpoint to source code repository format to run eval

We perform evaluations on multimodal benchmarks using LLaVA source code repository. For this, we need to convert the checkpoints generated using the training run from Phase-2 to LLaVA source code repository format. This can be done using the command: 
python modelzoo/tools/convert_checkpoint.py convert \
--model llava \
--src-fmt cs-2.2 \
--tgt-fmt hf \
--output-dir /path/to/hf_converted_checkpoint \
--config /path/to/cs_config.yaml \
/path/to/checkpoint_from_phase-2.mdl
The above command generates two folders image_model and text_model under output-dir as shown below: 
/path/to/converted_checkpoint
├── image_model
│   ├── config.json
│   ├── preprocessor_config.json
│   ├── pytorch_model-00001-of-00001.bin
│   └── pytorch_model.bin.index.json
└── text_model
    ├── config.json
    ├── pytorch_model-00001-of-00004.bin
    ├── pytorch_model-00002-of-00004.bin
    ├── pytorch_model-00003-of-00004.bin
    ├── pytorch_model-00004-of-00004.bin
    ├── pytorch_model.bin.index.json
  • Folder image_model consists of weights for vision_tower in source repository
  • Folder text_model consists of weights to be loaded for the Language model and projectors
  • The LLaVA source code repository expects tokenizer files to be present along with the language model weights (code pointer). For this, please copy the tokenizer files into text_model folder.
  • Also, please make sure text_model.mm_vision_tower points to the image_model path to ensure the weights from image_model folder are loaded into the source code vision_tower. This path is automatically added during checkpoint conversion.
  • Rename folder text_model to text_model_llava. This is since the source code repository expects the path to include llava keyword in order to correctly load the checkpoints. (code pointers: builder.py, mm_utils.py)
  • So, after the relevant tokenizer files are copied, the output-dir should look like below: 
    /path/to/converted_checkpoint
├── image_model
│   ├── config.json
│   ├── preprocessor_config.json
│   ├── pytorch_model-00001-of-00001.bin
│   └── pytorch_model.bin.index.json
└── text_model_llava
    ├── config.json
    ├── pytorch_model-00001-of-00004.bin
    ├── pytorch_model-00002-of-00004.bin
    ├── pytorch_model-00003-of-00004.bin
    ├── pytorch_model-00004-of-00004.bin
    ├── pytorch_model.bin.index.json
    ├── special_tokens_map.json
    ├── tokenizer_config.json
    └── tokenizer.model

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Step 7: Set up source code repository for benchmark evaluation and run evaluation benchmarks

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DataLoader Features Dictionary

LlavaHDF5MapDataProcessor outputs the following features dictionary with keys/values:
  • image_data: Image tensor
    • Shape: (batch_size, model.num_channels, model.image_model.image_size[0], model.image_model.image_size[1])
    • Type: torch.float16
  • labels: Text input tokens to be predicted by model
    • Shape: (batch_size, model.text_model.max_sequence_length)
    • Type: torch.int32
  • key_padding_mask: Mask indicating the positions of image_tokens. Used in conjunction with causal attention mask(generated on the fly).
    • Shape: (batch_size, model.text_model.max_sequence_length)
    • Type: torch.int32
    • 1 at positions where we DO NOT want to ATTEND, 0 otherwise
  • text_input_ids: Tensor indicating input text tokens. These include <pad> token inserted in [model.image_start_idx: model.image_start_idx+num_patches] positions
    • Shape: (batch_size, model.text_model.max_sequence_length)
    • Type: torch.int32
  • loss_mask: Mask indicating positions to consider when computing loss.
    • Shape: (batch_size, model.text_model.max_sequence_length)
    • Type: torch.int32
    • 1 at positions where we want to compute loss, 0 otherwise

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Implementation notes

The following modifications and assumptions are made in this implementation:
  1. Phase-2 instruction finetuning data includes samples which contain text-only data. For these cases, we pass a dummy image and make sure we do not attend to these dummy image features using src_key_padding_mask from the dataloader.
  2. Our preprocessing scripts and model defintions all assume that that image occurs at a fixed location with the context length. This is specified in the model definition using model.image_start_idx parameter in the yaml
  3. We currently support datasets which contain single image per sample.
  4. We currently do not support interleaving of multiple images with text.
  5. We currently expect all the images under a single parent folder and the relative path of images from different datasets are written under image_key in the H5 files generated. For example: 
     train_input.img_data_dir
 ├── coco
 ├── gqa
 ├── ocr_vqa
 ├── textvqa
 └── vg

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References